
The New Adventures Of Old Christine alum Hamish Linklater is back at CBS with a co-starring role opposite Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar in David E. Kelley’s comedy pilot Crazy Ones. Written/exec produced by Kelley and directed/exec produced by Jason Winer, Crazy Ones is set in the world of advertising and stars Williams as Simon (Williams), the brilliant head of an ad agency working alongside his daughter Sydney (Gellar), the agency’s creative director. Linklater, repped by ICM Partners and Framework, plays Andrew, the ad agency’s art director. 20th TV is producing. Linklater recently did arcs on The Good Wife and The Big C.
Aussie Tim Pocock (Wolverine) has been cast in NBC 10-episode summer series Camp, from creators Liz Heldens and Peter Elkoff, BermanBraun and Universal TV. In the tradition of Meatballs and Dazed And Confused, Little Hawk Family Camp is a wicked slice of lake-side heaven. Pocock plays the camp’s counselor Robbie, an overachiever who was recently accepted into Stanford law school. On Camp, Pocock joins another young Australian actor, Tom Green. Both co-starred on the Australian series Dance Academy, which aired on TeenNick in the US.
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So…it’s “Crazy Ones” meets “Mad Men”, right ?
I think you need a class in remedial pitching, hombre.
So Robin Williams is doing TV now? Wow! Count me in! This is going to be a ratings hit for CBS, just like everything they put out these days. Amazing win for the network.
GREAT FOR HAMISH!!! I’ve been waiting for him to get a good role since Christine was canceled. This is a certain hit!
Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, Batman & Robin. MADE IN JERSEY and PARTNERS were not exactly hits. And after I’ve viewed THE GOLDEN BOY, I’m presuming it will flop as well. That doesn’t exactly make one feel very confident.
As to DAVID E. KELLEY – I used to love his work (Ally, Boston Public, Boston Legal, L.A. Law, The Practice). Then he went all soap-box with Boston Legal in the last one or two seasons. Harry’s Law also left a lot to be desired and felt very soap-boxey. Retooled season 2 felt oddly stubborn, insisting on stuff (incl. cast) that simply didn’t work and cutting out some things should have stayed in (incl. cast).
Now, I loooove Kelley’s MONDAY MORNINGS, especially Dr. Sung Park. The way his environment reacts to him is also often hilarious. That show’s excellent. Kelley and comedy per se, especially when it comes to his nutjobs, is a different matter.
Eccentric chars on Ally worked fine (especially in the early seasons), but the evolution of his “crazies” over time (and series) just seems to go in the wrong direction. Gellar and Linklater are cool, Robbins can sometimes be very good and at other time just odd and not funny at all.
I would love this show to be fun and smart, IOW classic Kelley, but I’m not holding my breath. Harry’s Law was just too awful an experience.